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Fat Cat: Creating a heritage brand

Fat Cat founder Matt Saunders talks to Phil Mellows about how the brand has survived and the group’s gastropub ventures.

Source:Fat Cat: Creating a heritage brand

Glendola Leisure has bought the two Frankenstein bars in Glasgow and Edinburgh from Saltire Taverns, for an undisclosed sum.

Source:Glendola snaps up bars from Saltire Taverns

The UK Independence Party has thrown its support behind the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s Thrive on Five campaign.

Source:UKIP backs Thrive on Five campaign

Alan Meale, founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, has been granted a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Source:Knighthood for former APPBG chairman

M&B is looking to develop an Asian food-influenced concept, after an unsuccessful approach for Pan Asian restaurant chain Tampopo.

Source:M&B developing Asian concept after Tampopo approach

Staffordshire brewer and pub operator Titanic has bought its sixth pub, a freehold from Punch Taverns, off an asking price of £300,000.

Source:Titanic buys sixth pub

Day-to-day pub sales must be allowed to continue unhindered under the Community Right to Buy Scheme, the BBPA has warned.

Source:BBPA eyes changes to Right to Buy on pubs

A second package of former Laurel Pub Company pubs comprising 21 town centre sites has been placed on the market.

Source:Former Laurel pubs hit the market

Punch has revamped its wine list, adding 25 new wines and extending its range of house wines.

Source:Wine list revamp at Punch

Gresham Inns Pub Company, the fledgling business led by entrepreneur Will Clayton, is seeking further sites across London.

Source:Gresham Inns launches hostel concept